Town Hall witnesses the long-awaited resurrection of P.D.Q. Bach. by Paul J. Pelkonen Peter Schickele (left) demonstrates Steinway/Ever...

EMI releases 50 Shades of Classical Music. by Paul Pelkonen “Why is anyone the way they are? That’s kind of hard to answer. Why do some...

An irreverent, operatic celebration of Father's Day. by Paul J. Pelkonen Actor, raconteur, comedian, renaissance man, father ...

From YouTube: Cage performs Cage. Cage match: actor Nicolas Cage in the (dreadful) 2006 remake of The Wicker Man , directed by Neil LaBu...

When Wagner meets Def Leppard. It's hysteria, I tells ya. Original art elements © 1987 Def Leppard/Phonogram Records Photo of Ms....

Start your day with Zappa: There's finally some snow on the ground outside my window. A good thing, as it's January. So while I dr...

Or Trapped in the Metropolitan Opera House! "There's got to be a way out of this place! But where?" The author, trapped so...

I found this excellent little opera on Youtube.com made by John and Al Kaplan. It's a verismo story of a brave little plumber in love ...

Multi-million-dollar stage equipment comes to lower Manhattan. The Metropolitan Opera and the Mayor's office have come up with a...

Detroit rappers and rocker cover a Mozart rarity.  by Paul J. Pelkonen One of these band-members is dead. Guess which one? (L.-R. Jack ...

With the exception of last week's article about the Brooklyn Philharmonic , I don't normally post cartoons on this blog. And I gene...

Metropolitan Opera Unveils Latest Hi-Tech Robot Initiative. by Paul J. Pelkonen Introducing the Met's new concertmaster, Toyota...

"Beckmesser Man", a Parody. (with apologies to Richard Wagner,  John Flansburgh and John Linnell.)  This post is for my good fri...

Battling Stage Sets Wreck North Jersey after U2 Show The Met's "Machine" set in a performance of last season's Das Rhei...

Five Operatic Sequels We'd Like to See by Paul J. Pelkonen Opera has its share of "sequels". The most famous is Mozart'...

Jean Sibelius, surprised as anyone else  that they've found the score of his Eighth Symphony. Inspired by Daniel J. Wakin's exce...

A former boss of mine (and now a good friend) sent me this as a birthday greeting. I'm 38 today, and thought I'd share this absolute...

Highway traffic, from the experimental film Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance ©1983 MGM/UA. Yesterday, Jan. 31 was Philip Glass' bir...

"And now, on with the opera. Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the pa...

We present a classic anecdote of the opera, which I first read in The Rough Guide To Opera , an excellent referential guide to all things p...